Things I Have to Do Before I Die

Ok originally this page was all realistic and I set hard goals for myself. After my first SIGGRAPH crunch I started realizing that I probably won't be able to get some of them done. That made me sad, so I'm softening the constraints on this page. These are no longer goals that I absolutely must achieve; they are just events that would really rock if they actually happened. Actually I wouldn't even mind if this turned into a Mister Holland's Opus thing where I set all these lofty career goals and then my life got sidetracked and I ended up loving a completely different lifestyle and teaching girls how to play the flute.

Goal

Date Posted

Status

Break a concrete brick with my hand
4/30/04
DONE! - 8/4/04
Buy my parents a gift worth over one thousand dollars
4/30/04
Working working working.
Write a love song about someone and perform it for that person
4/30/04
DONE! - 5/08
Travel outside of the USA
4/30/04
DONE! - 7/3/05
Get a PhD
4/30/04
I'm a PhD student at Georgia Tech. w00t.
Get a haircut
4/30/04
DONE! - 5/6/04
Marry a brilliant woman and have thousands of evil genius babies.
2/21/05
Ask me about this one later.
Hit at least one open-mic night in Atlanta before I leave Georgia Tech.
2/21/05
DONE! - 6/29/05
Do a butterfly twist on video.
2/21/05
GOOD ENOUGH! - 5/6/05
Publish a research paper
2/21/05
DONE! - 6/2/05
Get a paper into SIGGRAPH with me as first author
2/21/05
DONE! - 8/08
Go to Chuck E Cheese and totally kick ass in skee-ball, then give all my tickets to the nerdiest little kid in the building.
2/21/05
Saving my quarters. I suck at skee-ball, so I might need help with this one.
Get on the radio. This could be playing guitar in a song or yelling in the background during a talk show or giving a nerdy quote to NPR. Getting mentioned on the news after committing a crime doesn't count.
2/21/05
DONE!
I totally forgot that I've already been on the radio. In my senior year of high school, I called in WBUS and asked the DJ to help me find a date to the homecoming dance. He put me on the air and asked people to call in. He kinda made fun of me!
Visit Woodstock, Illinois, where "Groundhog Day", the greatest movie of all time, was filmed.
7/26/05
DONE! - 12/28/05